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USS Hawkbill SSN-666 Submarine Model, US Navy, Scale Model, Mahogany, Sturgeon Class

$399.00

  • Length – 20 inches
  • Made from Mahogany
  • US Veteran Owned Business
  • The product is not intended to be used by children 12 years and younger.

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Description

USS Hawkbill SSN-666 Submarine Model

Dive again with your shipmates in this USS Hawkbill SSN-666 Submarine Model. Each piece is carved from wood and hand painted to provide a piece you’ll love.

  • Length – 20 inches
  • Made from Mahogany
  • US Veteran Owned Business
  • The product is not intended to be used by children 12 years and younger.

USS Hawkbill (SSN-666), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the hawksbill, a large sea turtle. The name perpetuated the inadvertent misspelling of “hawksbill” in the naming of the first ship of that name, USS Hawkbill (SS-366), a Balao-class submarine launched in 1944. USS Hawkbill (SSN-666) was the eighteenth of 39 Sturgeon-class nuclear-powered submarines that were built.

Hawkbill was sometimes called “The Devil Boat” or the “Devilfish” because of her hull number (666), from chapter 13 of the Book of Revelation, in the Bible’s New Testament, which begins “And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea….” and ends “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six;” and the resulting association in Christianity of the number 666 with the Devil and the Antichrist.

Construction and commissioning
The contract to build Hawkbill was awarded to the Mare Island Division of San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California, on 18 December 1964 and her keel was laid down there on 12 September 1966. She was launched on 12 April 1969, sponsored by Mrs. Bernard F. Roeder, the wife of Vice Admiral Bernard F. Roeder, Commander United States First Fleet, and commissioned on 4 February 1971 with Commander Christopher H. Brown in command.

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